Melancholy Movies

Just after stealing the urn containing the ashes of her deceased lover, Paloma, a drag queen, meets Mike, a quiet and gloomy trucker.

A portrait of the performance artists in colorful clothes and painted faces whom have transitioned from a symbol for joy and laughter, to horror and...

Two estranged childhood friends, Henry and Carter, reconnect in their early twenties for a final, turbulent canoe trip.

In the wake of Glasgow’s rapid deindustrialization and economic decline in the 90s, a young Fraser falls victim to knife crime and is indelibly...

A feature-length road trip drama, set on the iconic London canals. We are narrated an unlikely story mixing reality with hints of British folklore....

Set in early-1900s Ireland, A troubled and delusional young man dependent on the attention of his mother grows increasingly obsessed with the...

A short film poem about transitioning to the next chapter of your life

Set in northern Kerala, the film narrates the journey of Alice in search of her missing husband, a college lecturer. During her quest, she slowly...

Nestor is a boy immersed in melancholy. In an attempt to forget an old love, he begins a relationship with Isabel, an android.

A group of friends from a summer village. Over the past few years, they've been seeing each other less and less. Bruna invites them to lunch to...

A new-to-town carer forms an unlikely bond with her first patient, an elderly man with onset dementia, and together they find ways to reconcile with...

Anna is thinking of quitting sex work. She hears screaming from out the window.

When my friend Whitney added me to her ABC’s of Quarantine Film Festival lineup in March, I was excited and then immediately thought about the...

Phone and video camera footage of Jane's lonely family trip to Europe. Takes place months before certain events take place.

Set in 1948, a year after independence, Gajar Ka Halwa is a deeply personal tale of love, loss, and the invisible scars of Partition. In the...

Anna is a 45 years old woman, living alone with her mother in the center of Tbilisi. One night, Anna's life takes a different turn, when at the...

Chile is seen through the eyes of a Chinese painter - a traditional painter who uses the concepts of XVIII century Shih-T'ao.

A boy is going on an exchange to Canada but doesn’t know why he’s decided to do so.